Barry Eisler Quotes

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

Barry Eisler

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Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

Joan Cusack

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I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

John Gourley

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The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Robert Gottlieb

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We want to make Bing more than just search: to be the key intelligence engine behind the phone, get people to navigate, and present information in a meaningful way.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

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I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.

Ana Navarro

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For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Tom Cavanagh

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I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

Roma Downey

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At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.

Mike McGavick

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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Liz Phair

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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Jonathan Stroud

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I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

Dorothy Denning

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You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

Chris Pratt

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